They mentioned the study and so I readily agreed to it. Besides anything else, I just thought it would be good for me to monitor it at home.

And I figured, the fact that I was signing up to this study, would hopefully put me in good favour with the midwives, [laughs] so coming down the line, I might need something, you know. And, actually, it turned out that [research nurse] was the only midwife that I had any kind of relationship because I didn’st see the same midwife twice, at all, either at the doctor’s surgery or the hospital or the or the consultant. I didn’st, I never saw, I never actually met the consultant. I only ever had his registrars so you don’st build up any relationship with them. Didn’st build up any relationship with any of the midwives because I never saw them more than once. So [research nurse] was the only person that I saw on a regular basis and, actually, got to know.

This is the trouble, because I was classed as high risk but there was actually nothing wrong, I again fell in this kind of in between zone where I didn’st really get extra care and I didn’st see, I didn’st have any rapport with the consultant or with the registrar. I just saw a different one each time. Whenever I saw a registrar, they’sd hadn’st even bothered to read my notes so I was going in every time completely fresh, having to explain everything. In fact, the first time I saw the, the first registrar that I saw I walked in and she said, Oh, I take it I’m seeing you because you’sre obese. [Laughs]. I said, Well, actually, I think you’sll find it’s because, yes, my BMI is high but also my age and the other reason I’m seeing a consultant is because I have a bad back and I have sleep apnoea. So again, more boxes ticked for being a high risk pregnancy. So she hadn’st even bothered to look at the notes to see why I had been referred as a high risk [laughs].